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THE WORLD OF BOOKS
MR. R. MACDONALD
WHAT THE PRIME MINISTER READS
PEARL OF CHINA" FOREIGN DIPLOMACY
FRENCH DOCTOR IN SZECHWAN
Writes Lady Hosie in the
The library of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is an extremely in-Observer: teresting one, for it forms part of the Labour Leader's life-atory. There are books in it that represent avery period in Mr. MacDonald's career from the time when he was earning 12s. 6d. a week AS junior olerk in à London warehouse to the period when he became the first Minister of the Crown:
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Lady Hosie writes in the "Obsorver"'-Dr. Joseph, a Cana In "Modern Chinese Civilisation" dian, and a brilliant scholar, has French doctor takes us away from made careful study of history in this "historical atmosphere to that his well-documented book, "Foreign of daily life and thought. Dr. A. Diplomacy in China, 1894-1900.** A F. Legendre spent many yeare in term which needs elucidation ́to Chiren, mainly in Szechwan, that the average person is the most- farthest-west province which my favoured nation clause, against husband called the pearl of which I have heard speakers with China," and he speaks from much the best intentions inveigh. Of A history of Windsor Castle unique experience. His passion is course, it menus precisely the marks this last period. This is the science; and he therefore dissecta opposite of what one might sup only full and complete history of China's civilisation, writing fear pose In effect, it stands for the the Castle in existence, It was lossly. His book, which is also of same principle as
"the Open compiled by order of the King, and mueli interest, will not please | Door;" L.e., that there shall be in only a limited number of copies Young China, for whose instruction practice no "favoured nations." were printed. It is very beauti- and admonition it is written. Thus, through wiles and intrigues, fully bound and printed and well | Sickoned with tho flattery which such as went on about 1896, when illustrated. On the fly-leaf the some Occidentals have served up Russia, Germany, and France were King wrote: To Mr. Ramsay to the East, pitsing passionately trying to "slice" the poor melon, MadDonald, on the occasion of his the crushing needless labour of or through force of arras such first visit to Windsor Castle ne China's human beasts of burden; Japan achieved, China might be. Prime Minister."
enraged with the senseless folly of coerced into granting special pri A Present From the Queen the peasant who buts down every Later, when the then Prime true and thus gives his land over a Minister visited Balmoral, he was prey to alternate flood and drought, presented with 比 history of making bad things worse, Dr. Balmoral Castle by Queen Mary, Legendre has done true service to compiled and printed also by Hin the people for whom he cares Majesty's command.
deeply by tearing away the veil of illusion.
Practically every volume in his collection of books was purchased by Mr. MacDonald with the view that he might gain knowledge. There are all kinds of history books, books un political economy, lives of famous men, book on philosophy, to be seen in Mr. MacDonald's library in his quiet, old-world home at Hampstead.
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What he says of the habits of the.. poor, of insanitation, disregard of infection, of the shallow learning of over-weoning students, is true. But he goes on to say that, as an anthropologist and measurer of heads, he is assured that biological- ly the Chinese are unfitted for re- publican ideals. I can only hope he has made a scientific miscalcula- tion: for I cannot help fancying they intend to keep to those ideals, biology or no, Russia, he points out, tells Chinu that the way of progress is by munitions and lethal weapons, and China is tempted. Did she not lately invite Ludendorff to train armies for her? The au- thor urges upon Western Europe, to In the library of such a man it whorn it has been given to know the is not surprising that books of the smelting of metals, the weaving of tighter kind are not to be found: wool, agriculture on a large scale, When the writer asked him if he and inductive science, the duty of read any modern fiction an empha-helping China to all these. We tic shake of the bead was his reply.
Silently those books tell the story of how their owner through years of poverty laboured to acquire know ledge from them, denying himself even food to acquire it, for often the then struggling clerk would go without any dinner in order to save the money which he required for the purchase of some book he wish- ed to possess.
Some Rare Editions
But there is good fiction to be seen in Mr. MacDonald's collection.
-one
should give her the chance to acquire the scientific mind. And he is right.
The English translator has not of books-Dickens, Scott, George been altogether happy in her read Eliot, the Brontes-and a wondering of Chinese names. Also the ful collection of Scottish tales of word "Chinaman" is anathema to the seventeenth century; the last-the purist, who prefers the word mentioned was
of Mr. Chinese."
He MacDonald's happy “finds.” does not, it may be explained; go in at all for collecting rare editions, but he has from time to time by at lucky chance come acrosa some prizes of this kind, among these being a first edition set of the Barchester novels.
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Britain's Great Weapon In the years 1898-1900 it was Britain's great weapon whereby she, and she alone--as Dr. Joseph points out very conclusively-saved China from dismemberment. He has collated his evidence, not only from recognised China Tources, but from the Wily-Miaky Letters and Da Wille's Memoirs which all, one regrets to discover, confirm the worst suspicions as to Bussian and German plans for absorbing North China and France was apparently behaving with equal greed in South China. If Britain had not induced China, after much other, to pro- ise never to alienate any portion of the Yangtaze Basin without British consent, these nations would unblushingly have planned the partition of Central China also. One gathore that the author is pleasantly surprised at his dis- coveries about Britain, and intends. further researches into. Lat policies. Equal success and sur- prise await him, even with regard to the extra-territorial-doings of-the- missionaries-British-on, whom he casts an eye of dubioty. He was born in 1901, studied at the London School of Economics and is con sequently still inclined to a trife of Dr. Owen B. Chapman has writ- cynicism. He reiterates that it is ten the book which our Parliamen-fantastical" tarians-in-posse should buy at once tional altruism. He was too young to expect interua- and digest. By it knowledge will for the war. interesting.The Chinese Revolu come quickly. It is also extremely painstaking, and exact.
Sir Frederick Whyte, whose ap- tion, 1926-7," is its name and its pointment as Chief Adviser to the there. The author, an Australian Nationalist Government shows very missionary doctor of the neighbour-sound judgment on their part, Phood of Hankow, has always had writes a lucid and thoughtful Pre-
predilections for the Nationalists face.." cause. With conspicuous fairness he has given us what happened to the Nationalist movement during launching north of the army, the the year of wrath." The first propagands, what part Russia play- ed, Eugene Chen's short but vivid efflorescence, the emancipation of The biography of the late Earl of Feng Yu-baiang and Yen Rosebery may be written by Mr. Hai-shun in their roles, the anti-John Buchan, the distinguished religious virus; be has set it all down novelist and man of letters, it is as it came, mostly without com believed in London book circles. ment, in purely historical form. The tase for- Peking between the Left or Communist Wing from Hankow, and Chiang Kai-shek with his Nankingites, is positively thrilling. No, I will not remind you of the
"History, philosophy, and lives of famous тел form the Labour Leader's favourite kind of reading, together with the writers of nation mertioned above. Mr. MacDonald knows almost by beart all that the late Lord Morley wrote.
There is one kind of literature the Labour Leader rarely roads arimatic literature has never pealed to him; and this, in a way, is rather surprising, for his life has certainly not been devoid of a dramatic aspect; the writer did not see the works of any dramatist in Mr. MacDonald's library, not even any of Shakespeare's plays though, of course, they may have been there. But, says John o London's Weekly, the works of Mr. Shaw were certainly absent..
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PEN PICTURES OF RURAL LIFE TO-DAY
{"Apollo in Exile." By himself Edited by James Bryce. Benn
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We have already me the author through The Story of a Plough. boy" and "The Double Journey ** Apollo in Exile ** is written in al- together lighter vein than his former works, and may not, perhaps, be read so widely, but it has its own: particular charm and should appeal to many
Mr. Bryce give us, in this book, & picture or rather a series of pic- tares of rural life as it is to lay in the Lowlands of Scotland. They make a charming background to the mild adventures of the hero a would be....... post, who reversen the usual proce, and leaves the Metro. venture and the wherewithal to exit, over the Scot tish border
The only son of a practical. wealthy business man, he refuses to follow in his father's footsteps, pre- ferring to woo the Muse in rooms in Bloomsbury living meanwhile on a comfortable allowance from home
Lady Hosie "Observer":
women.
denouement.
writes in
the
Dr, Chapman concludos that the Nationalist. Government, minus the Communists, is the only political hope for China・・ and most of us agree. One arresting statement he makes--
His book is excellent.;
ROSEBERY'S LIFE
MAY BE WRITTEN BY MR. *
JOHN BUCHAN
Lord Rosebery and Mr. Buchan were close përsonal friends and shared a common interest in literary matters and Scottish history.
Lord Rosebery's life, covering as it did a long and exceptionally in- teresting period in British and European history, is bound to make fascinating reading. He was inti- mate with Gladstone and he met and corresponded with the European statesmen, especially Bismarck. This correspondence, together with The news that is being passed his papers, and, possibly, private along the whispering galleries of journals, is certain to yield a fund the East is this: that China so of valuable first-hand material for cepted Russian help, adopted the his biographer, which it would not doctrines of Communism be surprising if during his later and even delivered herself for yours of leisure Lord. Rosebery bad over a year to the control and done something towards their ar- direction of her Russian advisers | rangeirent himself.
of the Third International, that
after a full and fair trial of this
regime she found that Rustin was Look Inside of Yourself seeking not the good of China, but the World Revolution, and for the causes of ill-temper and de- that China was being broken and pression. Most likely torpid liver rumped in the process and that, final tract is to blame. The light
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